It’s hard to believe the year we have had. Even harder that a punctuation mark could help explain it. But when you consider the history of the interrobang—a largely forgotten symbol that marries both ...

Add Yahoo as a preferred source to see more of our stories on Google. An “Interrobang” is a punctuation mark that can best be described as a question mark with an exclamation point on top of it. The ...

Listen to new episodes on your smartphone or other device. A new punctuation mark called the interrobang found its way onto some typewriters in the 1960s, but it never caught on. Special episodes of ...

Meet the interrobang. Unless you happen to be a typographic expert, you probably haven't encountered the hybrid question mark-exclamation point. It was actually invented in the early 1960s by ad exec ...

At the risk of making my life sound more exciting than it really is, around once a week I find myself staring at my laptop keyboard wondering which of the symbols staring back at me – not to mention ...

Several writers and inventors in the last century tried to introduce new marks of punctuation into the English language – but they all failed. Keith Houston tells their story. In the 1930s and ’40s, ...

There are times when a questioning question mark just won’t do, nor an exclaiming exclamation mark. Neither suggests the full rhetorical shock-horror that the above sentence requires. “You’re pregnant ...

Several writers and inventors in the last century tried to introduce new marks of punctuation into the English language – but they all failed. Keith Houston tells their story. In the 1930s and ’40s, ...